See nihilist on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "antinihilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nihilistic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "nihil",
"4": "",
"5": "nothing"
},
"expansion": "Latin nihil (“nothing”)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ist"
},
"expansion": "-ist",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin nihil (“nothing”) + -ist.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihilists",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nihilist (plural nihilists)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Philosophy",
"orig": "en:Philosophy",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Religion",
"orig": "en:Religion",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
221,
229
],
[
221,
230
],
[
336,
344
]
],
"ref": "2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:",
"text": "“Promortalists recognize and seek to minimize suffering rather than embrace misanthropy and amorality,” Keneally says, noting that the writings attributed to Bartkus indicate he rejected the “sociopath[ic]” tendencies of nihilists” in a May 2025 forum post. […] According to the ISD report, the disorganized and ever-changing nature of nihilist ideologies makes it harder to understand and counter.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who accepts or champions nihilism."
],
"id": "en-nihilist-en-noun-QDnoO-tC",
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"nihilism",
"nihilism"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy, religion) A person who accepts or champions nihilism."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"lifestyle",
"philosophy",
"religion",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihilisto"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihilisti"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihiliste"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nihilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nihilistin"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "midenistís",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μηδενιστής"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "nihilíst",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "נִיהִילִיסְט"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilí"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nichilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neunheeyseyr"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nihilistka"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "niilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nigilíst",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нигили́ст"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nigilístka",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "нигили́стка"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "nihilist",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ניהיליסט"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "nihilistin",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ניהיליסטין"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 67",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 85",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 91",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 78",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Manx translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Occitan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 75",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tibetan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Yiddish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing."
],
"id": "en-nihilist-en-noun-wOnSCzSq",
"links": [
[
"skeptic",
"skeptic"
],
[
"truth",
"truth"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈniː.ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈni.ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "nihiliste"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French nihiliste",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French nihiliste.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-m",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "nihiliști"
},
"expansion": "nihilist m (plural nihiliști)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "nihiliștilor",
"gpi": "nihiliști",
"gsd": "nihilistului",
"gsi": "nihilist",
"n": "",
"npd": "nihiliștii",
"npi": "nihiliști",
"nsd": "nihilistul",
"nsi": "nihilist",
"vp": "nihiliștilor",
"vs": "nihilistule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"id": "en-nihilist-ro-noun-eRjg05oN",
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "nihilism"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihìlist",
"tags": [
"animate",
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "нихѝлист",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisti",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisti",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihìlista",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Bosnia",
"Serbia"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihìlist",
"2": "m-an"
},
"expansion": "nihìlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling нихѝлист)",
"name": "sh-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"ni",
"hi",
"list"
]
}
],
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Croatian Serbo-Croatian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"id": "en-nihilist-sh-noun-eRjg05oN",
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Croatia) nihilist"
],
"tags": [
"Croatia"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nixǐlist/"
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nihil",
"3": "-ist",
"lang1": "la"
},
"expansion": "Latin nihil + -ist",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Latin nihil + -ist",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-c-er",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilists",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisters",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisterna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisternas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"g4": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "nihilist c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "nihilist c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-er"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish terms suffixed with -ist",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "nihilistisk"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"id": "en-nihilist-sv-noun-eRjg05oN",
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "nihilism"
}
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ist",
"English undefined derivations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Tibetan translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Manx translations",
"Terms with Occitan translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tibetan translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"en:People"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "antinihilist"
},
{
"word": "nihilistic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "nihil",
"4": "",
"5": "nothing"
},
"expansion": "Latin nihil (“nothing”)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ist"
},
"expansion": "-ist",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin nihil (“nothing”) + -ist.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihilists",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nihilist (plural nihilists)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Philosophy",
"en:Religion"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
221,
229
],
[
221,
230
],
[
336,
344
]
],
"ref": "2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:",
"text": "“Promortalists recognize and seek to minimize suffering rather than embrace misanthropy and amorality,” Keneally says, noting that the writings attributed to Bartkus indicate he rejected the “sociopath[ic]” tendencies of nihilists” in a May 2025 forum post. […] According to the ISD report, the disorganized and ever-changing nature of nihilist ideologies makes it harder to understand and counter.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who accepts or champions nihilism."
],
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"nihilism",
"nihilism"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy, religion) A person who accepts or champions nihilism."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"lifestyle",
"philosophy",
"religion",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing."
],
"links": [
[
"skeptic",
"skeptic"
],
[
"truth",
"truth"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈniː.ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nihilist.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈni.ɪl.ɪst/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihilisto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihilisti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"word": "nihiliste"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Nihilist"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nihilistin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "midenistís",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μηδενιστής"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "nihilíst",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "נִיהִילִיסְט"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilí"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nichilista"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neunheeyseyr"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nihilistka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "niilista"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nigilíst",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нигили́ст"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nigilístka",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "нигили́стка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nihilista"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nihilist"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "nihilist",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ניהיליסט"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "nihilistin",
"sense": "person who accepts nihilism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ניהיליסטין"
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "nihiliste"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French nihiliste",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French nihiliste.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-m",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliști",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliștilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "nihiliști"
},
"expansion": "nihilist m (plural nihiliști)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "nihiliștilor",
"gpi": "nihiliști",
"gsd": "nihilistului",
"gsi": "nihilist",
"n": "",
"npd": "nihiliștii",
"npi": "nihiliști",
"nsd": "nihilistul",
"nsi": "nihilist",
"vp": "nihiliștilor",
"vs": "nihilistule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "nihilism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "nihìlist",
"tags": [
"animate",
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "нихѝлист",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisti",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilista",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihiliste",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisti",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihìlista",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Bosnia",
"Serbia"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihìlist",
"2": "m-an"
},
"expansion": "nihìlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling нихѝлист)",
"name": "sh-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"ni",
"hi",
"list"
]
}
],
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Croatian Serbo-Croatian",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Serbo-Croatian animate nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
"Serbo-Croatian lemmas",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine animate nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Croatia) nihilist"
],
"tags": [
"Croatia"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nixǐlist/"
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "nihilistisk"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nihil",
"3": "-ist",
"lang1": "la"
},
"expansion": "Latin nihil + -ist",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Latin nihil + -ist",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-c-er",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilist",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilists",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilistens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilister",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisters",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisterna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nihilisternas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"g4": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "nihilist c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "nihilist c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-er"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "nihilism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms derived from Latin",
"Swedish terms suffixed with -ist"
],
"glosses": [
"nihilist"
],
"links": [
[
"nihilist",
"nihilist#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"word": "nihilist"
}
Download raw JSONL data for nihilist meaning in All languages combined (13.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.